Author's Note: Yay! New chapter. I reckon this'll be finished in around 3-4 chapters so, I'm going to try and get it finished today, or I will finish it tomorrow. Please excuse any typing errors as currently Microsoft Word doesn't like me, so I'm having to use WordPad to type these up in.
Disclaimer: Don't own.
A little later, Reno walked into Rufus' room, carrying a tray of food. Rufus looked up in surprise.
"You didn't have to do anything for me..." The blonde looked away.
"Whatever." was the only response from the redhead before the click of the door signalled he'd left once more. From where Reno and the kids were eating, Rufus could hear snippets of their conversation.
"Axel, where's your food?" one of the children asked.
"I ain't hungry" came the redhead's unconcerned reply. As all of the children began to chastise Reno, the blonde sat in stunned silence. The man who he thought hated him, the one who had run from him 4 years earlier, had given up his food so that Rufus could eat... The blonde couldn't stand it any longer and stood up, taking the food with him.
"Stop being an idiot and eat. I ate before I tried to take on those monsters" Rufus said, placing the plate of food on the dining table and going to walk back to his room before being stopped by Reno and roughly pushed into the chair. Rufus winced as the amount of force used aggravated some of his injuries.
"Eat it now. You are recovering and ya've been out for 4 hours. Now eat before I forcefeed ya." Reno growled, storming into the kitchen.
"Are we getting pudding today, Axel?" The blonde, mulhawked boy from earlier asked.
"If ya finish it all" Reno's voice had a softened tone to it that Rufus hadn't heard for years. It made the blonde's heart skip a beat, and he got lost in his own world of memories, fighting off the tears that the memories threatened.